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and equaling the pistil ; capsule thickened at base, sessile, linear, divaricate, 
often flexuous or deflexed ; seeds rather small, linear-lanceolate, smooth. — 
Stems usually 1-2° high, erect or ascending, from more or less running root- 
stocks. Var. NuTTALLii, Eng. Amer. Jour. ScL, n. s., 36. 334. Leaves 
linear or lanceolate, attenuate at base into a short petiole, entire or more or 
less dentate, (some of the specimens with villous calyx and coarsely sinuate- 
dentate or subpinnatifid leaves, approaching Var. runcinata ;) petals nearly 
white, V in length, about equaling the calyx-tube; capsule 1-1^' long; stems 
slender, simple or branching at base. — From Washington Territory to the 
Saskatchewan and southward, east of the Sierras, to Northern Mexico and 
Western Texas. Found in Smoky and Euby Valleys, Nevada, but much 
more frequent in the Wahsatch ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; June- August. (408.) 
CEnotheea deltoides, Torr. & Frem. Frhnont^s Rep., (1845,)^. 315. 
Annual, more or less canescently puberulent and villous ; stem erect, low and 
stout, 6-10' high, becoming woody with white membranous bark, sparingly 
branched, the branches subdecumbent ; early flowering forms often nearly 
acaulescent ; leaves tapering to a long petiole, very variable even on the same 
plant, from broadly rhombic-ovate to lyrate linear-pinnatifid ; flowers large, 
(2-3' in diameter,) sessile, axillary ; calyx-lobes villous, the tube nearly twice 
longer than the entire petals; stamens shorter than the petals; anthers 
elongated, fixed by the middle ; style exserted ; capsule thickened at base, 
(often 2 J') long,) terete, usually recurved, rigid ; seeds hnear, smooth, vary- 
ing in size, usually li" in length. — Root straight and subfusiform. This is 
203 Anderson and 101 Torrey, from near Carson City, 1217 and 1590 
Brew^er, from California, and was also collected by Cooper near Fort Mohave 
in Western Arizona, It has been mistaken for Var. trichocalyx of the last 
species, but is very different. Foot-hills of the Truckee and Humboldt 
Valleys, Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude ; May, June. (409.) 
CEnotheea triloba, Nutt. Biennial, acaulescent, nearly glabrous; 
leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, petioled, the segments occasionally toothed ; flow- 
ers large, sessile ; calyx-tube very long, (2-5',) filiform, dilated above ; cap- 
sules oval or obovate, cartilaginous or somewhat woody, reticulated, 4-winged, 
apiculate or 4-toothed at the apex, tardily deliiscent loculicidally or sometimes 
septicidally ; seeds horizontal, angled, densely tuberculate.— Leaves thin, 
4-10' long; flowers 2-3' in diameter, yellowish, becoming rose-color; cap- 
sules 1' in length, persistent and crowding at the base. From Arkansas to 
